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2013 is a year that has largely been defined by unnecessary,
after-the-fact sequels that virtually no one asked for and even fewer
have shown up to (sorry, "Riddick," we know your heart was in the right
place). Maybe the most baffling of these sequels, however, is "The Best
Man Holiday," a sequel to 1999's "The Best Man," a movie that people
barely remember, let alone cried out for a follow-up from. Still, like
some kind of viral outbreak or a coyote in your back yard, "The Best Man
Holiday" is here, whether you want it or not, and you just have to deal
with it.

The original "Best Man" was an enjoyable comedic drama that focused on a
group of college friends who are reuniting for the wedding of a
superstar football player friend of theirs. It was overly complicated
and way too long, but it had its own kind of frothy charm and a killer
soundtrack full of late-'90s party jams. In many ways, it functioned as a
kind of African American answer to "The Big Chill," except with
extensive, college-era flashbacks featuring Morris Chestnut in a
do-rag.tice, and some of the drugs he found and sold were later proved
to be of help to AIDS patients.The titular best man of the first film,
Harper (Taye Diggs), was a young novelist whose first book was about to
be published. In typical comedic fashion, the novel was based on the
group of friends and their college lives, including lothario Quentin
(Terrence Howard), nebbish Julian (Harold Perrineau) and, of course, the
groom himself, Lance (Chestnut). There's a lot of dude talk about sex,
some sexual fumbling, revealing secrets and a near-murder, and the
actresses assembled to play on the other half of this insane football
game (including Nia Long, Sanaa Lathan, Melissa De Sousa, Monica Calhoun
and Regina Hall) were totally up for the melodramatic, occasionally
madcap proceedings. It was great for what it was, and looking back on
the film, you can see the way that it inspired Tyler Perry's cottage
industry of black-targeted entertainment.

In "The Best Man Holiday," which has the dubious distinction of being an
unnecessary sequel and a Christmas movie, all of the characters reunite
for a holiday weekend at Lance and his beloved bride Mia's expansive
New England home. Harper has fallen on hard times; he's been fired from
his professor job at NYU and his last few novels haven't exactly been
blockbusters. But his silver lining could be his former best friend
Lance, who is about to retire from football after breaking some kind of
record, but has yet to name his official biographer… Could he mend the
friendship and make a lucrative business deal? The other characters have
similar problems, including one who finds video evidence online of his
former-stripper wife blowing a college kid and another who feels
emotionally adrift after years engaging in the swinging bachelor
lifestyle.In some ways returning writer/director Malcolm Lee (Spike's
cousin) is responding to the Perry industry, which sprung up in between
the original movie and now. There's a greater emphasis on incredibly
stodgy religion, something that Perry often leans on, and the kind of
oversized theatrics that causes audiences to flock to any movie Perry's
name is attached to. But "The Best Man Holiday" is edgier and more
authentic, with more relatable characters and dialogue that earns its
R-rating. (Lee stages the action better, as well, since Perry's films
are often a compositionally incoherent blur.) The emotions might be
similarly heightened, but you can actually understand what is happening
and why. It might be overlong, overstuffed, and occasionally operatic,
but that doesn't mean that it can wring the tears out of you. Also,
there's a scene where Terrence Howard takes a photo of his ***** and
sends it to someone.